Small is Beautiful
Subtitle: Economics as if People Mattered
By: E.F. Schumacher
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Rústica
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Economics
Description: "Small is Beautiful is a wonderful statement which will hopefully be followed by more from Schumacher, as well as from others who find that his departure into 'economics as if people mattered' makes the kind of common sense that could help the survival of life on earth become at least a decent possibility." -Liberation

"I had never heard of E. F. Schumacher before reading this book. After reading it I am ready to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in economics .... Schumacher [is] an eminently practical, sensible and eloquent chap, versant in the subtleties of large-scale business management, yet equally in touch with the down-to-earth realities of a simple Indian village. His book is a most unusual economic treatise, enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology." 
-The New Republic
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: ix
label: Preface to the 1989 Edition by john McClaughry; title: xvii
label: Preface to the 1989 Edition by Kirkpatrick Sale; title: 1
label: Introduction by Theodore Roszak; title: PART I THE MODERN WORLD; title: 13
label: 1. The Problem of Production; title: 23
label: 2. Peace and Permanence; title: 42
label: 3. The Role of Economics; title: 56
label: 4. Buddhist Economics; title: 67
label: 5. A Question of Size; title: PART II RESOURCES; title: 83
label: 1. The Greatest Resource-Education; title: 108
label: 2. The Proper Use of Land; title: 125
label: 3. Resources for Industry; title: 142
label: 4. Nuclear Energy-Salvation or Damnation?; title: 155
label: 5. Technology with a Human Face; title: PART III THE THIRD WORLD; title: 173
label: 1. Development; title: 2. Social and Economic Problems Calling for the; title: 181
label: Development of Intermediate Technology; title: 202
label: 3. Two Million Villages; title: 218
label: 4. The Problem of Unemployment in India; title: PART IV ORGANISATION AND OWNERSHIP; title: 237
label: 1. A Machine to Foretell the Future?; title: 257
label: 2. Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organisation; title: 271
label: 3. Socialism; title: 279
label: 4. Ownership; title: 290
label: 5. New Patterns of Ownership; title: 313
label: Epilogue; title: 319
label: Notes and Acknowledgments